Mediterraneo (film)

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name = Mediterraneo


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caption = original movie poster
director = Gabriele Salvatores
producer = Silvio Berlusconi Mario Cecchi Gori Vittorio Cecchi Gori Gianni Minervini
writer = Enzo Monteleone
starring = Diego Abatantuono Claudio Bigagli Giuseppe Cederna Claudio Bisio
music = Giancarlo Bigazzi Marco Falagiani
cinematography = Italo Petriccione
editing = Nino Baragli
distributor = Miramax Films
released = flagicon|Canada September 9, 1991 (premiere at TIFF)
flagicon|USA 22 March, 1992 (NYC only)
runtime = 96 min.
rating =
country = Italy
awards =
language = Italian
English
Greek
Turkish
budget =
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imdb_id = 0102426

"Mediterraneo" is an Italian film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1991. The film is set during World War II, and regards a group of Italian soldiers who become stranded on a Greek island and are left behind by the war. They each find their own niche on the island and decide that being stranded is not necessarily a bad thing.

The filming took place on the island of Kastellórizo.

Cast

* Diego Abatantuono as Sgt. Nicola Lo Russo
* Claudio Bigagli as Lt. Raffaele Montini
* Giuseppe Cederna as Antonio Farina
* Claudio Bisio as Corrado Noventa
* Luigi Alberti as Eliseo Strazzabosco
* Ugo Conti as Luciano Colasanti
* Memo Dini as Libero Munaron
* Vasco Mirandola as Felice Munaron
* Vanna Barba as Vassilissa

External links

*imdb title|id=0102426|title=Mediterraneo

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title=Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
years=1991
before="Journey of Hope"
after="Indochine"